By:
Gene Perry
June 3, 2013 // Updated: June 3, 2013
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Guest
May 31, 2013 // Updated: May 31, 2013
Cindy Cason is a native Oklahoman who helped launch the Together Oklahoma statewide grassroots coalition, working to ensure Oklahoma values are connected to state budget priorities.
Last week at Norman’s Jazz Aid Concert to benefit tornado recovery efforts, a young…
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Gene Perry
May 30, 2013 // Updated: May 2, 2019
OK Policy’s annual Budget Highlights issue brief is one of the most informative and accessible ways to track Oklahoma’s public spending.
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Guest
May 29, 2013 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Colin D. Moore is Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, and a member of the Scholars Strategy Network (SSN). His research examines how the development of public bureaucracies has shaped politics and public policy in the…
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By:
Gene Perry
May 28, 2013 // Updated: May 2, 2019
In an earlier post, I discussed how implementation of the criminal justice reforms passed in 2011 was not going as hoped. That post concluded:
The justice reinvestment bill was always only a first step of many desperately needed reforms. Its…
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Earlier this week, the Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives, T.W. Shannon, scuttling any hopes that the Insure Oklahoma program could remain a viable option for providing health insurance to some low-income working Oklahomans. This means that the program’s…
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By:
Gene Perry
May 23, 2013 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Last week, with just days remaining in the Legislative session, House Speaker T.W. Shannon made a surprising announcement. He said that he would put forward a measure to repeal Common Core standards in Oklahoma schools.
Oklahoma lawmakers voted to adopt…
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